They physically can't help themselves. Maybe Republicans might be more open to the idea if you didn't act like mindless zealots about your 15 minute cities. This:
Gotta love how the most common rebuttal in that thread is that there is a cabal of oil and car companies purposefully spreading misinformation.
Well you've been investing in public transit for a long time now and the results are saying something you don't want to listen to.
As much as they like to cherry-pick Amsterdam-Centrum as some sort of urbanism ideal, I'm surprised they don't pick out modern mixed-use developments as "this is what a 15 minute city could look like". (It's not like it could be more artificial than a government-enforced one.)
So if the company a person works for has a particularly large campus or workforce, how do 15 minute cities propose to prevent the areas from becoming mostly company towns?
It's like guns, where using it improperly will get you in trouble anyway. Cars are the same way. Going 100 mph anywhere is going to get you noticed by law enforcement, whether by big city cops (who will assume, usually correctly, that you stole it and/or fleeing a crime scene) or small town ones (who will gladly fuck you over even if you were doing 15 mph over).
There are actually places in Europe, like parts of the aforementioned Autobahn, that don't have a speed limit. You still need to use your common sense though.
What they don't realize is most people would be ok with 15 minute White European cities. Just everyone knows 15 minute cities is code for you will live in the shit filled streets getting harassed by Pajeet scams and Niggers.
everybody would love 15 minute cities if it meant building new and supporting existing services and amenities, but it only seems to involve restricting vehicular traffic.
Thanks to cars, I already live in a 15 minute city! Everything I need is a 15 minute drive (or less) away! If I took the bus it would be 45 minutes instead. Plus it's public transportation, I legit had a dream last night where someone tried to stab me on a train and I shot them, not even kidding dead serious, I just woke up from that dream half an hour ago.
No, because a 15 minute city is still a horrific dystopia, even if it's run by muh white Europeans or whatever the fuck. All it does is create captive audiences in each sector. Want to go to a restaurant in the next sector? Fuck you, there's one in your own. You don't like it? Fuck you. Have friends or family you want to visit in the next sector? Fuck you, find friends who live in yours. Had to move into a different sector because you changed jobs? You can have Zoom meetings with your old friends and your family - at least until your betters decide that Zoom is using too much precious power and therefore melting polar bears, after that, fuck you.
Not really. There are a lot of downsides like a lack of space and noise pollution.
I will remind these retards that the houses that Charles-Édouard Jeanneret and all the other early modernists designed for themselves looked nothing like the monstrosities they designed for others.
the 5 over 1 concept is really old, the old Roman insulas were basically the same thing, and pretty common in european cities till the modern day.
Yeah I know that. I'm just not sure that all of them were built explicitly to have a retail unit on the ground floor with separate living units above, maybe they'd be paired so the owner and his family could live above, or sold entirely as dwellings then converted to retail by the owner.
